Figure may refer to:
General
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shape,
drawing
Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, ...
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depiction
Depiction is reference conveyed through pictures. A picture refers to its object through a non-linguistic two-dimensional scheme, and is distinct from writing or notation. A depictive two-dimensional scheme is called a picture plane and may be cons ...
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geometric configuration
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Figure (wood), wood appearance
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Figure (music), distinguished from musical motif
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Noise figure, in telecommunication
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Dance figure, an elementary dance pattern
*A person's figure,
human physical appearance
Human physical appearance is the outward phenotype or look of human beings.
There are infinite variations in human phenotypes, though society reduces the variability to distinct categories. The physical appearance of humans, in particular those a ...
Arts
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Figurine, a miniature statuette representation of a creature
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Action figure, a posable jointed solid plastic character figurine
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Figure painting, realistic representation, especially of the human form
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Figure drawing
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Model figure, a scale model of a creature
Writing
*figure, in writing, a type of
floating block (text, table, or graphic separate from the main text)
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Figure of speech
A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from ordinary language use in order to produce a rhetorical effect. Figures of speech are traditionally classified into '' schemes,'' which vary the ordinary ...
, also called a rhetorical figure
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Christ figure, a type of character
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